Reading Specialists

Welcome to the Reading Specialists Networking Group!

IMPORTANT LINKS

• PSSA Current Information
• Keystone Exams Current Information

September 28, 2017

• Presentation

May 3, 2017

• Presentation
• Food for Thought
  • Distinguishing Language Acquisition from Learning Disabilities
  • Supporting Beginning Readers in Reading to Learn: A Comprehension Strategy
  • Readers Who Struggle: Why Many Struggle and a Modest Proposal for Improving Their Reading
  • Complex Questions Promote Complex Thinking

March 8, 2017

• Presentation
• SAS Portal
• Food for Thought
  • Helping Students Set Goals
  • Reaching Reluctant Readers
  • No More “Baby Stuff”
  • Literacy in Every Classroom
    
    
    

January 11, 2017

• Presentation
• Article: "If I were an ELL..."
  • Ten (usually) Wrong Ideas About ELLs

November 2, 2016

• Presentation
• Article: "Academic Language"
  • High Frequency Academic Words
  • High Frequency Academic Words - Synonyms
  • Word Sorts
  • Word Wall Activities
  • Characteristics Effective Vocab Instruction (marzano)
  • Choosing Words to Teach (Reading Rockets)
  • Choosing Vocabulary Words for Instruction (This site also has other effective teaching strategies.)
• Cognitive Rigor Matrices
• Critical Thinking & Reasoning
  • The Read Aloud Project
  • Reading Rockets: How to Increase Higher Order Thinking
  • ReadWriteThink - critical thinking search
  • Explicit Instruction for Implicit Meaning: Strategies for Teaching Inferential Reading Comprehension
• Building Stamina & Perseverance
  • Rigorous Reading: Building Strength and Stamina
  • Reading Can Be a Real Workout
  • Teaching Perseverance
  • 8 Ways to Build Student Stamina
  • Building Writing Fluency: A Simple Routine for ANY Classroom
  • Building Stamina in Primary Writers
• Sources for Text Sets and/or Units
  • CommonLit
  • Louisiana ELA
• Writing
  • Summer Session Writing Elementary http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=2009661 KEY: SA16ElemWriting
  • Summer Session Writing Secondary http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=2009663 KEY: SA16SecWriting
  • Van Cleave
  • Lucy Calkins: Columbia U Teachers College Reading and Writing Project
  • Cathy's Curriculum Corner
• Anita Archer

March 23, 2016

• Presentation
• Food for Thought
  • 5 Good Ways to Talk About Data
  • Are We Motivating Students with Data?
• PaTTAN MTSS/RTII Binder
• Evaluation

January 27, 2016

• Presentation
  • Educator Effectiveness Update
• Article: One team: classroom teachers and specialists
• Interventions Review
  • Intervention Central
  • Developing Effective Tier 2 & 3 Interventions
  • Comparative Chart
• Evaluation

November 10, 2015

• Presentation
  • PDE PSSA Current Information
  • PDE Keystone Exam Current Information
• Sharing
  • Resource Review
    • 18 Strategies for the CCSS with Struggling Readers
      • Also download and view linked document
    • Text Project
  • Record Resources
  • View Resources
• Breakout Groups
  • Record
  • PA MTSS
• Evaluation